Upcoming Planetarium Shows

Shows are Thursdays at 7 p.m., Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., and Sundays at 4 p.m. There will be no shows October 16-19 due to Radford University's Fall Break, and no shows November  27-30 (Thanksgiving Break). There will be no regular 7 p.m. show on Friday, September 26. 

The show for the Radford University Planetarium for this coming Thursday-Sunday, October 2-5 is "Hubble Vision." 

Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided incredible images in unprecedented detail to astronomers, and made an astonishing array of discoveries — from nearby objects in the solar system to the most distant galaxies at limits of the observable universe. 

We catch glimpses of solar system objects, including the Moon and Venus; clouds on dusty Mars; Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's crash into Jupiter; storms on Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; and the faraway worlds of Pluto and Quaoar. Beyond the solar system, we explore protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula, and regions of starbirth across the cosmos. We witness the deaths of stars like our Sun; the cataclysmic aftermath of supernovae in the Crab Nebula; and the expanding rings around Supernova 1987a. We see breathtaking views of colliding galaxies; jets shooting from active galactic nuclei, powered by supermassive black holes; the eerie effects of gravitational lenses; and deep-field views of the most distant galaxies ever seen.

This spectacular 30-minute show is produced by Loch Ness Productions.